Stolen Grace Quotes

“Sylvia had gotten used to her sophisticated, New York friends who traveled the world, and who could talk about art or literature with her.”
― Arianne Richmonde, Stolen Grace

“He’d tried, yearned to make her happy, but he couldn’t do it anymore; be her “happy barometer,” the one responsible for her equilibrium. He needed to make new plans for his family, for himself—he needed to get them out of this rut.”
― Arianne Richmonde, Stolen Grace: Part One

“Love like that can’t just disappear.”
― Arianne Richmonde, Stolen Grace: Part One

“It was true what Melinda said, though. Tommy hadn’t slept with the girl, hadn’t—as far as she knew—even kissed her. But the intention was there. The mental betrayal.”
― Arianne Richmonde, Stolen Grace: Part One

“She wanted her father to believe everything was perfect with her world—didn’t want to pile him with her burden.”
― Arianne Richmonde, Stolen Grace: Part One

“She and Tommy had become the type of couple she used to despise, that snipped at each other over inconsequential nothings, who went to bed feeling angry without a kiss to make up for it—the sort that couldn’t be bothered to have sex anymore because it seemed like just too much effort after a long day.”
― Arianne Richmonde, Stolen Grace: Part One

“One minute you have it and the next it’s obstructed by a storm cloud. Unexpected—out of the blue, yet with a faint hope that it will vanish . . .”
― Arianne Richmonde, Stolen Grace: Part One

“It’s also a reality that France, sweet little picturesque France which makes wine and cheese, has a submarine that has six missiles—each one of them has a thousand times more power than Hiroshima, enough nuclear power alone to blow up the world twenty times. All that power contained in one single submarine! But we can’t live that way, can we? Worrying about the what-ifs.”
― Arianne Richmonde, Stolen Grace